Designing Dashboards: The Do’s, Don’ts, and D’ohs!

What You’ll Learn

Determine what’s succeeding or failing in your dashboard

Learn to look at dashboards in a new light

Prevent interaction pitfalls by focusing on tasks

Design customizable dashboards that don’t suck

Dashboards are a great idea. The problem is, many are useless. But you already knew that, which is why you’re interested in this seminar—because Hagan Rivers knows which elements to include, how to structure them, and what to slash out of your existing dashboard that needs some UX TLC.

She’ll show you a bunch of dashboards. And she’ll give you tips for helping stakeholders understand the implementation benefits and drawbacks of seemingly simple components, from graphs to customizable panels.

Designing a new UI? Evolving an existing one? You’ll walk away from this session knowing how to make your dashboard what it needs to be.

Determine what’s succeeding or failing in your dashboard

You’ll get coaching on what dashboard UI components are useful, and which implementation details contribute to a dashboard “FAIL.”

Learn from mistakes other people have made

Get inspired by great dashboard designs

Learn to look at dashboards in a new light

You’ll learn the difference between “pretty” and “useful.”

Prevent common design traps that don’t actually address usability

Learn from the mistakes of others’ dashboards to make decisions about your own dashboard UI

Examine some great dashboards to get inspired

Prevent interaction pitfalls by focusing on tasks

You’ll dig into the details of core interaction design issues.

Understand that good dashboard design is more than just the reporting of information

Learn how to delight your users by balancing your presentation of information, a focus on tasks and goals, and quick-access to features

Create connections with the rest of your web application

Design customizable dashboards that don’t suck

You’ll weigh user benefits against implementation drawbacks.

Learn to analyze whether a customizable dashboard is the right approach for you

Understand what having a customizable dashboard buys you and costs you

Whether you’ve got an onerous dashboard on your hands or you’re charged with designing a new one from scratch, then you simply can’t afford to miss Hagan’s practical and information-packed seminar.

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Why Hagan?

With 23 years of experience in designing user interfaces for organizations such as Sun Microsystems and Netscape, Hagan has a comprehensive answer to the question, “How can I simplify this chaotic UI?”

Hagan is an expert on the what, why, and how of good (and bad) interface design for complex interactions. Since founding Two Rivers Consulting, she’s been answering her calling to design beautiful and useful dashboards for companies worldwide. And after this seminar, you’ll be well on your way to doing the same.